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Meilisearch — what a crawler receives from meilisearch.com

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87
Cgrade

AI assistants like ChatGPT can read your site, but find little to quote about your product.

AI visibility 87/100, measured 2026-10-30 23:04 UTC from outside its network, as each named AI and search crawler and as a browser. An engine can reach and read this site. What is left is giving it something specific to say.

Held at C A medium-severity finding sets the letter.

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941. ReachCan a named answer-engine crawler get your pages at all?832. ReadOnce it has the bytes, can it find the words?803. QuoteIs there a specific fact it can state and attribute?

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findings

✓

llms.txt on its host

✗

entity map on its host

9

scans on record since 2026-09-18

The three stages, in the order an engine hits a site

Each stage gates the next: an engine that cannot reach a page never reads it, and one that cannot read it never quotes it.

94

Stage 1 · 40% of the score

Reach

Can a named answer-engine crawler get your pages at all?

Every named crawler was served the same page a browser gets.

83

Stage 2 · 30% of the score

Read

Once it has the bytes, can it find the words?

The content is buried in markup, or the files that guide a crawler are missing.

80

Stage 3 · 30% of the score

Quote

Is there a specific fact it can state and attribute?

An assistant would have to paraphrase your page instead of quoting a fact.

The stage to fix first is quote, the lowest of the three.

What to fix

4 findings on this site, 2 of them scored serious. Every one is named below; the top one is shown in full, free. What we saw, why each matters, how to fix it and the bytes behind it are what a licence buys — or we implement the whole list for you.

2 Medium 1 Low 1 Note

1The homepage depends on files this site's own robots.txt disallows25 render resources referenced by the homepage are disallowed to every crawler by this site's own robots.txt: /_next/static/chunks/05q1r6jz9qb4g.css (/_next/), MediumSetting

What we saw

25 render resources referenced by the homepage are disallowed to every crawler by this site's own robots.txt: /_next/static/chunks/05q1r6jz9qb4g.css (/_next/), /_next/static/chunks/0d5b~sthoz-ef.css (/_next/), /_next/static/chunks/0hjy7izkvaujd.css (/_next/), /_next/static/chunks/128xo00hk-314.css (/_next/). A crawler that obeys robots.txt will not fetch these, so it renders the page without them. /robots.txt

Why it matters

Googlebot renders pages, and a stylesheet or script it is forbidden to fetch is rendered without. Layout, visibility and any content a script inserts are then judged from a page the site never intended to show. Only rules in the * group count here - a rule aimed at one named crawler is a narrower question.

How to fix it

Allow crawlers to fetch the CSS and JavaScript the page depends on. Remove the Disallow rules covering those paths, or serve the content without them.

Setting: a setting on the server, CDN, DNS or a plugin — no code and no writing

On Next.js (detected)

  1. App Router: add app/robots.ts that returns a MetadataRoute.Robots object (rules per userAgent, sitemap URL). Pages Router or static export: put robots.txt in public/.
  2. Ship one of the two, not both: the route handler and a public/robots.txt collide.

In Cloudflare (this site is behind it)

  1. If Cloudflare's managed robots.txt is on (Security → Bots, or AI Crawl Control → robots.txt), Cloudflare adds its own lines above yours. Turn it off, or keep it knowing those lines are there.
  2. Robots.txt is cached at the edge: purge it (Caching → Configuration → Custom purge → the robots.txt URL) after you change it.

All Next.js fixes

Site deployed from GitHub

  1. Add this workflow file as .github/workflows/crawlcheck.yml (change robots-path if robots.txt lives elsewhere).
  2. Run it from the Actions tab: it opens one pull request with the corrected robots.txt, every change listed. Review, merge, deploy.

How the action works

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You are working in the codebase (or server/CDN configuration) that serves meilisearch.com. A crawler audit found the problem below. Fix it at the source, keep the change as small as possible, and do not change anything a visitor sees unless the fix requires it.

Finding: The homepage depends on files this site's own robots.txt disallows (RENDER_RESOURCE_BLOCKED, medium severity)
Page: https://meilisearch.com/robots.txt
What was measured: 25 render resources referenced by the homepage are disallowed to every crawler by this site's own robots.txt: /_next/static/chunks/05q1r6jz9qb4g.css (/_next/), /_next/static/chunks/0d5b~sthoz-ef.css (/_next/), /_next/static/chunks/0hjy7izkvaujd.css (/_next/), /_next/static/chunks/128xo00hk-314.css (/_next/). A crawler that obeys robots.txt will not fetch these, so it renders the page without them.
Why it matters: Googlebot renders pages, and a stylesheet or script it is forbidden to fetch is rendered without. Layout, visibility and any content a script inserts are then judged from a page the site never intended to show. Only rules in the * group count here - a rule aimed at one named crawler is a narrower question.
How to fix it: Allow crawlers to fetch the CSS and JavaScript the page depends on. Remove the Disallow rules covering those paths, or serve the content without them.
Detected platform: Next.js. Make the change where this platform controls it.
Rule and examples: https://crawlcheck.io/rules/RENDER_RESOURCE_BLOCKED
Full report (markdown): https://crawlcheck.io/r/t45xci6ksf.md

When you are done:
1. Tell me which files or settings you changed and why.
2. If the fix is a server, CDN or cache setting you cannot change from the code, say exactly where it is set.
3. After deploying, re-scan at https://crawlcheck.io/?url=meilisearch.com . The fix counts when RENDER_RESOURCE_BLOCKED is gone from the new report.
Why this was decided
RuleRENDER_RESOURCE_BLOCKED · rule pack sv34 · scope route
Evaluated2026-10-30 23:04:20 UTC
Decisiond1:de3077451ad8a340ff88 · finding f1:0583a6061ec70cb820ea resolve either at /api/graph/<id> with a key
Observercrawlcheck-worker build 2f84b437 from LAX · audit v4

What it rests on

IdentityStatusBytessha256Kept
read: /200309,7278f861ddf740bkept
read: /robots.txt200127708c90d34250already_held

20 more in the manifest.

Artifacts: manifest:612b5614c32b5e75e455405b2610b4e7493e7ca926cef1aac7fc9720b0e8e893

Grade effect Caps the letter at C together with 1 other medium-severity finding; the letter rises only when all of them are gone. Moves no points.

Rule RENDER_RESOURCE_BLOCKED under scoring rules v34 · fingerprint RENDER_RESOURCE_BLOCKED|/robots.txt · persisting (9 scans)

Verify the fix Re-scan after the change. This finding is cleared when RENDER_RESOURCE_BLOCKED is no longer reported at /robots.txt; if it comes back after clearing, it is marked a regression, not a new finding.

RENDER_RESOURCE_BLOCKED · full transcript

2Almost nothing a machine receives from this page is readable text🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Medium
3robots.txt keeps Google's image crawler off the site's images/_next/image🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Low
4A missing agent file answers with a full page🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Note

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The chain a crawler follows

The chain breaks at entity graph. Everything after that point is only reachable by a crawler guessing the conventional path.

✓robots.txtEvery crawler reads this first
✓sitemapNamed in robots.txt and resolves
✓llms.txtPoints onward, links stay on this host
✗entity graphParses as JSON and points home

A machine file that does not parse is worth less than one that is absent, because it looks present. Rows behind this.

Where the bytes go

Of the 309,718 decompressed bytes the homepage delivers, 1.5% is text a reader or a model can actually use. Most of what a crawler downloads here is not words.

  • Readable text 1.5% · 4,685 B
  • Markup & attributes 23.9% · 74,107 B
  • Structured data (JSON-LD) 0.3% · 1,000 B
  • Inline JavaScript 68% · 210,534 B
  • Inline SVG 6.2% · 19,104 B
  • HTML comments 0.1% · 288 B

The individual blocks that weigh the most, so the fix is a search rather than a hunt:

  • Inline JavaScript · 9,313 B (3%) — unnamedopens self.__next_f.push([1,"\u003cpre class=\"shiki github-dark\" style=\"b
  • Inline JavaScript · 8,605 B (2.8%) — unnamedopens self.__next_f.push([1,"\u003cpre class=\"shiki github-dark\" style=\"b
  • Inline JavaScript · 8,407 B (2.7%) — unnamedopens self.__next_f.push([1,"\u003cpre class=\"shiki github-dark\" style=\"b
  • Inline JavaScript · 7,667 B (2.5%) — unnamedopens self.__next_f.push([1,"\u003cpre class=\"shiki github-dark\" style=\"b
  • Inline JavaScript · 7,336 B (2.4%) — unnamedopens self.__next_f.push([1,"\u003cpre class=\"shiki github-dark\" style=\"b
Section average over 2 scans on this score version · held at 87 since 2026-10-30
0501002026-10-23 14:04 · 85/100 · 4 findings2026-10-30 23:04 · 87/100 · 4 findings2026-10-232026-10-30

What changed

  1. 2026-10-30score moved 83 → 84score-up
  2. 2026-10-11robots.txt began keeping Googlebot-Image off homepage imagesappeared

9 scans on record, first 2026-09-18. Score movements are shown only between readings taken under the same score version; finding codes are comparable across all of them.

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